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What ex-Blockbuster workers are saying about the store closures

By Christopher Dean Hopkins, Digital First Media

Posted:
11/06/2013 01:36:23 PM MST

What ex-Blockbuster workers are saying about the store closures

The looming end of Blockbuster's retail and DVD-mailing businesses has unleashed a wave of nostalgia on Twitter among those who used to toil in the stores.Many of today's millennial and Gen-Xers had their first jobs at Blockbuster outlets or stores like them. They were trained using the same thing they were trying to move: video tapes.On Tuesday, some former employees blamed themselves for cursing the company:I worked at Blockbuster video for a year after college. Kept me afloat before I ...